Newsletter

  • Summer Shares Are Sold Out!

    “The breaking news on the farm this week: our summer vegetable share is now sold out! Among this year’s CSA shareholders, we count many returning recent members, members from many years ago, friends…

  • Spring’s gift to your good health

    “This week, Mario, Leo, Julie, working shareholder Morgan and I harvested dandelions from the strawberry beds. The plants were vibrant green and enormous – abundant, mounded rosettes of slender toothed, notched leaves whose…

  • Of planting spring’s first starts

    “The potatoes are in, as are the first transplants of the year – kale, planted in our West field on Tuesday and Thursday (this batch in the cold rain!). There is little perennial…

  • Weed, mulch, repeat

    “Tomatoes and peppers have been started this week, with the help of honorary farmers McMillan, Eliza and Maggie. The field-planted spinach is up, the thin green blades of their seed leaves a vibrant…

  • Nutrient dense, carbon-sequestering, grown with love

    “…our new layers arrived last week. We ordered 125 birds in all, a mix of Black Stars, Red Stars, Pearl White Leghorns and Whiting True Blues that will lay a lovely medley of…

  • April 2020 MHOF Newsletter

    “The list of spring projects is a long one – and we’ve been making great inroads these last few weeks thanks to many helping hands”. Read this month’s newsletter here.